The PM should be working to strengthen trading relations with our allies, not getting into bed with the Communists in Beijing and the terrorist sympathizers in Doha

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In the fall, Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a plan to double Canada’s non-U.S. exports by 2035. What he failed to make explicit was that in order to do so, he would be cozying up to some of the world’s most reprehensible dictators.

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On Tuesday, Carney embarked on a world tour that will take him to Beijing and Doha — in a trip billed as promoting economic resilience by “building our strength at home, working to double our non-U.S. exports and attracting massive new investment” — before making a stop at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Carney’s choice of China as the signature stop on his trip should not surprise avid observers of Canadian politics. Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien made no less than four voyages to the Middle Kingdom, as part of his legacy-building Team Canada missions to open China to the Canadian market.

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After the Liberals returned to power in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempted to follow suit, travelling to China twice between 2016 and 2017, before Sino-Canadian relations soured with the abduction of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor the following year.

In the intervening time, the Communist Party of China has emerged as the single greatest threat to western democracies. It is a staunch ally of Russia, which has been waging an unprovoked war against Ukraine since 2022 and is threatening its European neighbours,........

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